Any NYS licensed technologist should look at our current newsletter to get up-to-date information on continuing education requirements for license renewals. Those renewing their NY license this year (2010) will have to document 12 continuing education credits, those next year will have to document 24 credits and so on. The NYSSRS will monitor this change and keep you informed via this website. Remember that the annual conference typically provides 12 quality continuing education credits over 2-1/2 days. See annual conference details for this years conference information.
I am so very happy to see that the ASRT has finally chosen a registered technologist to lead our profession. Best of all, he is from NY originally. Hopefully he will usher in a new era of trust and collegiality. Congratulations Sal Martino, we New Yorkers are rooting for you.
When I offerred to run for President in order to fill a vacancy left by a resignation I did so with a great deal of trepidation. After all I have “done my time”. I have other interests I would like to pursue However, I felt a responsibility to the organization to which I have given so much of my time. We face many challenges including a stagnant yet valued membership, little traffic to this website and few resources to contact all of the 16,000 technologists in New York State. I hope that in the next two years I can assist in revitalizing this organization, get people excited about this website and increase membership, thereby increasing revenue. Please help me in my quest!
Reals professions carve their own path!
Have you seen the draft of the BS core curriculum on the ASRT website? I take offense to the term “professional level”. What does that make the rest of us? Non-professional? Why do we do this to ourselves? I think it is time to quit “going along.” Why do we take this lying down? I’m not sure why our professional organization would designate only the baccalaureate level as professional. I feel the hundred thousand plus technologist out there producing quality medical images in a caring, safe way are also professional.
Thank you ASRT for making us feel inferior.
Eileen M. Doyle, MPA, RT(R)
Posted by Paulette on 05 Nov 2007 at 10:32 am under Uncategorized
A fantastic program, beautiful area and fabulous, a fabulous hotel all combined to make the annual conference held November 1, 2 and 3 a great success! Now, I know I am the coordinator but I am also a customer. The food was truly to die for (we may in fact die due the sheer excess – yummy), the service was friendly and courteous and the atmosphere was very elegant. I think we work hard all year long and we deserve the kind of treatment we received at the Otesaga. As always, you get what you pay for!
Posted by Paulette on 08 Oct 2007 at 11:51 am under Uncategorized
I think and think and think of reasons to continue to pay a good chunck of change to an organization that takes more and more away from me all the time. I don’t get the financial strain the ASRT cries about constantly when membership and products grow and grow and grow………
This past Sunday a young player for the Buffalo Bills football team suffered a spinal injury that required routine films, CT, MRI and surgery under fluoro guidance, every step of his treatment included our participation. The fantastic young physicians that are treating him have held two extensive press conferences describing his treatment and condition. They have been so gracious in acknowledging the team that has played a role in this treatment, including the imaging staff. Hats off to Dr. Cappucino for being so gracious and generous in his reporting. It isn’t often that anyone thinks to mention us.
In considering the slow progress of the CARE bill (although I understand these things take time) one can only be mystified by the speed with which some other bills get quick action. I have come to realize that it is because the “politicians” get nothing out of the CARE bill passing. It isn’t headline grabbing or sexy. There is no Julia Roberts movie that can be made from it. It doesn’t bring them the scads of money (that they desperately feed off of). It is just a patient safety issue from our point of view. I’m sure it will pass some day but that day will be as slow to come as they milk ASRT and it’s membership for $$$ year after year. That’s our system. Yuk!
This endless pursuit of the CARE/RADCARE bills in DC is frustrating. While the big glamorous day RT in DC is fun and makes everyone feel enthusiastic it is probably a less effective method of lobbying than contacting your reps and senators at the local level. This is the time of year when they all come home for picnics, parades, lawn fetes and so on. They will be everywhere. DO NOT be afraid to politic with them at these events. Remember, these men and women are NOT our leaders, that right is reserved to the Executive branch. These people are our REPRESENTATIVES, there to serve YOU. DO NOT fear them. The myth that they are somehow above us is perpetrated by DC insiders who only know the “game”. Respectfully throw numbers at them like the number of techs in their voting district who support the bills. Politics is blood sport.
